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Optical angular momentum (OAM) in light beams is manifested as the two-dimensional spatial distribution of its complex amplitude, necessitating a 2D detector for its measurement. Here we present a novel speckle-based machine learning…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-19 Vijay Kumar , Purnesh Singh Badavath

Structured light has been created by a myriad of near- and far-field techniques and has found both classical and quantum applications. In the case of orbital angular momentum (OAM), continuous spiral phase patterns in dynamic or geometric…

Optical fields with orbital angular momentum (OAM) interact with medium have many remarkable properties with its unique azimuthal phase, showing many potential applications in high capacity information processing, high precision measurement…

Molecular self-assembly has been extensively used for surface modification of metals and oxides for a variety of applications, including molecular and organic electronics. One of the goals of this research is to learn how the electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 M. F. Calhoun , J. Sanchez , D. Olaya , M. E. Gershenson , V. Podzorov*

Dynamic generation of obitial angular momentum (OAM) of light has enabled complex manipulation of micro-particles, high-dimension quantum entanglement and optical communication. We report an analog vortex transmitter made of one bilaterally…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-09 Kun Huang , Hong Liu , M. Q. Mehmood , S. Mei , A. Danner , Jinghua Teng , Chengwei Qiu

In light optics, beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM) can be produced by employing a properly-tuned two-cylinder-lens arrangement, also called $\pi$/2 mode converter. It is not possible to convey this concept directly to the beam in an…

Metasurfaces, composed of subwavelength electromagnetic microstructures, known as meta-atoms, are capable of reshaping the wavefronts of incident beams in desired manners, making them great candidates for revolutionizing conventional…

We report the first demonstration of a direct interaction between the extraordinary transverse spin angular momentum in evanescent waves and the intrinsic orbital angular momentum in optical vortex beams. By tapping the evanescent wave of…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-09 Zengkai Shao , Jiangbo Zhu , Yujie Chen , Yanfeng Zhang , Siyuan Yu

A high fidelity amplification of beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) is very crucial for OAM multiplexing and other OAM-based applications. Here, we report the first study of stimulated Brillouin amplification (SBA) for OAM beams,…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-11 Wei Gao , Chunyuan Mu , Hongwei Li , Yuqiang Yang , Zhihan Zhu

Based on the concept of sub-wavelength imaging through compensated bilayer of anisotropic metamaterials (AMMs), which is an expansion of the perfect lens configuration, we propose two dimensional prism pair structures of compensated AMMs…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Junming Zhao , Yijun Feng , Bo Zhu , Tian Jiang

The recently demonstrated possibility of entangling opposite values of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of a photon with its spin enables the realization of nontrivial one-photon spinorbit four-dimensional states for quantum information…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has gained great interest due to its most attractive feature of high dimensionality, and several ground-breaking demonstrations in communication based on OAM multiplexing have been carried out. Accordingly, a…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-22 Zhihan Zhu , Wei Gao , Chunyuan Mu , Hongwei Li

Over the past fifty years, wavefront sensing technology has continuously evolved from basic techniques to high-precision systems, serving as a core methodology in adaptive optics (AO). Beyond traditional wavefront retrieval methods based on…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-13 Rundong Fan , Zichao Wang , Pei Li , Lei Huang

We demonstrate the controlled spatiotemporal transfer of transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) to electromagnetic waves: the spatiotemporal torquing of light. This is a radically different situation than OAM transfer to longitudinal,…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-14 S. W. Hancock , S. Zahedpour , A. Goffin , H. M. Milchberg

Metasurfaces are optically thin metamaterials that promise complete control of the wavefront of light but are primarily used to control only the phase of light. Here, we present an approach, simple in concept and in practice, that uses…

A new physical mechanism to achieve spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion based on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized (CP) laser beam with a plane foil is presented and studied for the first time. It has been verified…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Shasha Li , Xiaomei Zhang , Weifeng Gong , Zhigang Bu , Baifei Shen

Electromagnetic waves carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have found many applications. This work reports a broadband millimeter wave OAM generator applying a dielectric metasurface with high-refractive-index dielectric elements…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-22 Fan Bi , Zhongling Ba , Yunting Li , Xiong Wang

The spin angular momentum (SAM) of light has become a cornerstone of numerous photonic applications, including optical communication and chiral photonics. Because SAM is inherently associated with circularly polarized light (CPL), the…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-24 Yuxin Yang , Izzah Machfuudzoh , Qiwen Tan , Takumi Sannomiya

Frequency sum of two light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) in quasi-phase matching crystals was reported for the first time. The situations in which one light carried OAM and the other is in Gaussian mode and both beams…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-10 Yan Li , Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Dong-Sheng Ding , Wei Zhang , Shuai Shi , Bao-Sen Shi

Created surfaces or meta surfaces, composed of appropriately shaped sub-wavelength structures, namely, meta-atoms, control light at wavelength scales. Historically, meta surfaces have used radiating metallic resonators as wavelength…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-26 A. Jain , P. Moitra , Th. Koschny , J. Valentine , C. M. Soukoulis